Simone Russo. Credit: Simone Russo, CC BY Scientists have developed a new method to model heat wave magnitude that takes both the duration and the intensity of the heat wave into account. The new metric—the Heat Wave Magnitude Index daily (HWMId)—indicates that a little-studied heat wave in Finland in 1972 had the same extent and […]
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New metric mapping top 10 European heat waves predicts strong increase in next two decades
November 27th, 2015 Awake Goy